Category-specific effects on the identification of non-manipulable objects

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 228-240

  McMullen, Patricia A ^a   Purdy, Kerri S ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Category specificity; Concept familiarity; Manipulability; Object identification; Picture word matching; Sensory Functional theory; Visual similarity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECOGNITION; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33846031592     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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